Upon upgrading from Fedora 41 to 42, I noticed that the USB tethering just doesn't work
networkctl recognizes the device as "wwan" now, instead of "ether". If I load up a previous kernel, USB tethering works normally.
This seems to be a change in the kernel, and probably won't be reverted in the future. What do I do?
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You know what? Fuck this. I just backed my shit up and installed Debian. Still, please try to look into this, this could be a problem for many others
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terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
This is why I try to wait at least a week to for release upgrades.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
Is week enough?
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
It's my minimum. It's usually been fine in the past. I've gone from a beta to full release and been fine. But the last few years ya, I try to wait at least a week, up to about a month. I do have other PCs or VMs I'll test a bit more with before pulling the trigger on my main machine.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
You're not alone in this:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/usb-tethering-stopped-working-after-f42-update/148809
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-42-tethering-from-my-phone-stopped-working-after-upgrade-device-recognized-as-wwan/148927
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220002
https://lore.kernel.org/all/e0df2d85-1296-4317-b717-bd757e3ab928@heusel.eu/
When Debian upgrades to this kernel version you might run into the issue again. Unless there is a fix deployed before then.
maliciousonion@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
By that time, I don't think I'll have to rely on USB tethering anymore. Plus the problem might reach the right ears and get fixed by then, as you said.
rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 336d
Is that kernel BZ ticket hopeful? IDK what resolving as "answered" means.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 335d
I'm also not familiar with how these things work. But it looks like the problematic commit was reverted:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=765f253e28909f161b0211f85cf0431cfee7d6df